YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 6, NOYAN TAPAN. The murder of the deputy head of Armenian police has caused despair among officials and ordinary people and created an atmosphere of fear, the deputy speaker of the National Assembly, member of "ARF" faction Hrayr Karapetian said at the February 6 briefing. In his words, the fact that the president of the country has taken this problem under his control will contribute to rapid detection of the crime. However, as he added, one should not forget those sensational crimes that were committed in the past and have not been detected so far. In response to a reporter's question: "Don't you think that in case of so many unsolved crimes, the prosecutor general should resign, or the National Assembly should review his being elected to this post?", H. Karapetian replied: "Not only the prosecutor general, but also all representatives of the law enforcement bodies should draw serious conclusions". H. Karapetian also spoke about the elections of the council of aldermen and, based on it, the mayor of Yerevan to be held this year for the first time, noting that the ARF attaches great importance to it. According to him, preliminary discussions are being conducted with all the committees of the party in Yerevan in order to clarify their positions. "The ARF must run in these elections, there is no doubt as to it," he stated. However, it has not been decided yet whether the ARF will run by a separate party list or a united list of the political coalition.

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